Project Update

[JugNut]

Hey DM was the ziag driver app able to find your $5 U3?

[Dataman]

Hey DM was the ziag driver app able to find your $5 U3?

No, neither Win10 nor zadig shows it. 

[Daniel]

My Antminer U3 from Croatia arrived today. So far it's working well. 

[chooka03]

Well that bodes well for me then Daniel.
Thanks for the update!

[JugNut]

Whoo Hoo!! another ant in the colony.

Congrats on the new member in the family Daniel,  more firepower in the team is always welcome.


@ Chooka:  Be patient mate it will be your turn soon enough. ;)

Crunch-on.... 

[Dataman]

Way to go Daniel. 

[Dingo]

 Glad that you have got it beat.  Congrats on getting the U3. 

I got a U3 today that I bought off ebay last week.  Had to buy the power supply and USB cable which which cost more than the U3, should have waited and ordered them on Amazon I think, but I wanted to get it going..  I had a devil of a time getting it going but I think it is off to the races now but I am one Gecko down because I ran out of room on the powered Hub.  Will have to order one tonight.

again and remember 

[Dataman]

I got a U3 today that I bought off ebay last week. 

One more to the ant army. 

[Dingo]

I was a bit too quick to say it was OK.   It did run for a while but it stopped and now all I get is the zeros.   Have given up0 for tonight will try again tomorrow.   

[JugNut]

I found that the U3's don't like to share with other kinds of miners, they work MUCH better when working on there own PC.

Good luck,  & congrats on your new purchase.

[chooka03]

Urgh    
So my U3 arrived but I've tried 3 times to get zadig installed and it's failed each time.
I can see the device but Zadig won't install. You guys ever come across that?

I've run out of time for today  

[chooka03]

I cannot for the life of me get the zadig driver to install.
Tried rolling back the original driver, intalling the WinUSB (v6.1.7600.16385) driver (the one that won't install), tried different USB ports.

I can see the device in device manager and Zadig can also see the device... the driver just won't install.

The fan runs and I see 2 red lights in the U3.
Am I missing something??

Edit..Hmm maybe it is working? I see a couple of completed WU in around 24min?
I'll check in the morning.
Just to add insult to injury, the DVI port on my monitor died.... I've had to rig up a HDMI connection. 

Goodnight

[JugNut]

Hey Chooka, if you had installed ziag on that PC previously then the U3 was probably installed automatically.

Also you get one red light when you have power & USB plugged in.  The second red light indicates it's hashing(working).  It's just like the gekko's hashing light but with the U3 it doesn't flash it just stays solid.  So yea 2 red light's is a good thing, when that second red light goes out you know it's time for a hot plug. 

Congrats Buddy. 

[Dataman]

@ Dingo: I agree with JN, you cannot mix miners. Here is how I add a miner.
1. Suspend BU.
2. Abort BU wu's that are running.
3. Edit cc_config. to new number of miners.
4. Install new miner device.
5. Run zadig and check EACH miner for proper driver (WinUSB). Install WinUSB as necessary.
6. Boot the PC.
7. Run zadig and check EACH miner AGAIN.
8 If OK, resume BU.

@ Chooka: Looks like you got it working. Another ant in the hill! 

[chooka03]

Morning!
Thanks for the feedback guys!
Although encouraging to hear I need 2 red lights..... I'm a bit skeptical that it's working properly. Guess I'll know over the next few days.
I have a feeling I'll need to as you said Dataman. All up I reckon I tried about 7 times to install the Zadig driver last night and each time it said Driver Failed. However after a restart, all miner descriptions in device manager match and apparently were working properly.
I don't feel any heat coming off the fan though. I would have expected some heat.

Maybe I should just try the U3 by itself running 1 WU to establish if its working.

Thx again guys!